re: #312 Brian J.

I thought it was pretty clear, but I will elaborate. The ACA/ Obamacare has a lot of popular provisions concerning keeping children on their parents’ health insurance until they turn 25, limiting the spread in insurance costs between customers, the insurance mandate to increase coverage, and so on. But put them together in a bill that the Congress might pass… and suddenly, the entire package became massively unpopular as the right hated it for doing too much and the left hated it for not being single payer. And that unpopularity lasted and dragged Democrats down for seven years.

It was still worth it. You have to take risks in politics. Did LBJ pushing for Civil Rights cost in 1966 and 1968? Yeah I’m sure it did but it was the right thing to do. Obama will go down in history as being able to get health care reform done and that’s a pretty big feather in his cap.
- Someone who won’t lose his insurance due to having a heart condition.